From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T03:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question - how to get day/month names from a date?

On 5/6/06, Adam Bloom <admanb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't for the life of me figure this one out. I know that the Date
> class has constants including MONTHNAMES and DAYNAMES, but I have no
> idea how to access them.
>
> day = Date.today
> Date.constants
>
> >["MONTHS", "ABBR_DAYS", "DAYNAMES", "ENGLAND", "DATE_FORMATS", "PARSE_DAYPAT", "ABBR_MONTHNAMES", "ABBR_MONTHS", "ITALY", "PARSE_MONTHPAT", "MONTHNAMES", "GREGORIAN", "DAYS", "ZONES", "ABBR_DAYNAMES", "JULIAN"]
>
> day.italy
> >#<Date: 4907723/2,0,2299161>
>
> day.monthnames
> > NoMethodError: undefined method `monthnames' for #<Date: 4907723/2,0,2299161>

Date::MONTHNAMES

It's a constant in the Date class. You use "::" to get at constants,
"." to get at methods.

Les